Living Water for Kenya

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
824555699
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2017
Location
Palm Desert, CA, USA
Phone
9092895788
Rating
92
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Services N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$150,414
Expenses
$133,500
Assets
$40,143
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • David W Hansen (President)

People named in this filing

  • David W Hansen (President)
  • Ron Case (Secretary)
  • Wayne Oestreich (Treasurer)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Living Water for Kenya, Inc.'s primary purpose is to provide people of Western Kenya (East Africa), with humanitarian, educational, spiritual, and leadership assistance.

What it reported doing in 2024

The WIDOW PROGRAM reaches out to older widows and some widowers and provides them both with fellowship and with a means of raising food for themselves to eat and to sell. Over 180 elderly currently participate in the program which provides them with corn seeds and fertilizer for the two growing seasons. One of the benefits of this program is that each participant brings in 10% of their harvest which they distribute among the less fortunate and the more infirm of the community. Under this program LWFK also has an element which using treadle sewing machines teaches widows and young women at two locations how to sew (make) clothing which they sell. Graduates of this program receive sewing machines of their own to help them earn a living. In 2024 LWFK rebuilt one of the sewing classrooms. No funding other than that provided by LWFK is available for these needs. The Kenyan government has no assistance available.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 89
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 52
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 85.1%; rating input score 85
  • Program expense ratio: 95.8%; rating input score 96

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 11.2%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 14.3% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 85.1% of revenue deployed · 95.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 8 filed program accomplishments · $128K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.